Hmm.

Hmm, okay, well. This makes me slightly LESS intrigued about Hawkman's appearance on JSA.

Michael Shanks is a good looking man, but that...just looks weird.

Then again, is there ever really a live action type guy with wings who actually looks convincing? I can't really think of any. (It's why the one, the only, thing I'll actually give that dreadful Supernatural show credit for was to have their angel reveal using shadows as wing imagery. It looked incredibly cool instead of stupid.)

Then again, does Hawkman really need to look convincing? His wings are SUPPOSED to be strap on aren't they? (Wait, for that matter, why do they bother with feathers? Feathers molt and shed and are hard to clean, and they aren't necessary for flight so...)

Possibly I'm just using this topic as an excuse to avoid my paper.

A Thought.

Is it wrong that I've always thought Jason Blood and Rose/Thorn would make a cute couple?

Or possibly Jason Blood and Harvey Dent if I'm leaning toward slash.

It'd at least make for interesting date stories!

Motion Comics

You know what creeps me out? Motion comics. I can't explain it, they're just really creepy to me. They're just so...static. And I don't like how the camera focuses on the picture.

It's weird, because I'm not a traditionalist. I love things like the 40 years of Avengers DVD, and don't particularly feel the need to hold the comic in my hands. (Also, I'm kind of accidently destructive by nature. My comics don't tend to live long. I buy comics to read them, not to preserve them. My stuff would make a hardcore collector cry. The Avengers DVD stores much better and keeps much longer.)

So it's not an aversion to that. Maybe it's the speech thing. Kind of like my dislike of audio books. I read faster than people talk so every time I listen to one, I start chomping at the bit because they're so slow to get to the good parts. (Also, no skimming ahead.) If I'm at all familiar with the original comic, the same thing starts kicking in. Whereas an animated adaptation like the old X-Men cartoons don't have the same problem. Possibly just because my eyes get distracted by pretty colors and movement.

Attention span, I have not.

I'm sad a bit though. Motion comics are cool in theory, but they really don't work for me.

I've discovered while randomly surfing Wikipedia that I am apparently too stupid to understand BC dates outside of a classroom setting. For example, say, I'm reading about Augustus Caesar, and I'm trying to figure out how the heck old he was during the Liberator's war. I have to keep typing the numbers in notepad, or I get really confused.

It's basic math, but for some reason, once I start going backwards, I get really mixed up. I never used to have that problem. I think Law School really is making me dumber.

Or I just need to start sleeping more. Either way.

Not quite cryptic enough?

For the record, while I may not have been reading comics as long as a lot of you folk (five years this coming January!) I have to say,

I don't buy any death that takes place in the middle of a storyline involving alien zombies.

Especially not when someone's just started dating Sinestro's daughter.

I'm just saying.

No post!

I would have a blog post today, but I totally spent the time watching Jack of All Trades. Bruce Campbell in a post-Revolutionary War setting with about as much accuracy as Xena or Hercules.

It is hilariously awesome.

So yeah. No post. Sorry!

Damnit!!!

Fuck it, Geoff Johns. You got me.

Even the JSA couldn't get me to watch Smallville (though granted, it might be different if my favorites were involved) but you found the one, ONE, thing that would get me to watch.

Amanda Waller.

Because I don't care how fucked up or irritating the Smallville universe is to me. Amanda Waller is enough. Especially when played by Pam Grier.

Well played, sir. Well played.

Oooo!

Okay, I don't know whether this would work or not, but I would totally read Geoff Johns writing a He-Man comic.

The potential for awesome is just...well, awesome!

As long as they keep the main character's tendency toward gratuitous bondage I'm there!